Twins, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGAGA HIHIGJGJ HKHKLMLM| In form and feature face and limb | A |
| I grew so like my brother | B |
| That folks got taking me for him | A |
| And each for one another | B |
| It puzzled all our kith and kin | C |
| It reach'd an awful pitch | D |
| For one of us was born a twin | C |
| Yet not a soul knew which | D |
| - | |
| One day to make the matter worse | E |
| Before our names were fix'd | F |
| As we were being wash'd by nurse | E |
| We got completely mix'd | F |
| And thus you see by Fate's decree | G |
| Or rather nurse's whim | A |
| My brother John got christen'd me | G |
| And I got christen'd him | A |
| - | |
| This fatal likeness even dogg'd | H |
| My footsteps when at school | I |
| And I was always getting flogg'd | H |
| For John turned out a fool | I |
| I put this question hopelessly | G |
| To every one I knew | J |
| What would you do if you were me | G |
| To prove that you were you | J |
| - | |
| Our close resemblance turn'd the tide | H |
| Of my domestic life | K |
| For somehow my intended bride | H |
| Became my brother's wife | K |
| In short year after year the same | L |
| Absurd mistakes went on | M |
| And when I died the neighbors came | L |
| And buried brother John | M |
Henry S. Leigh
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